- It is time we got 'Tough on Con's' and give Harper the boot.

"Watchdog to cost out Tory crime agenda Liberals request financial analysis, hoping to determine implications of crime bills", Bill Curry, Globe and Mail, Oct. 27, 2009,
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/budget-office-looks-to-put-price-tag-on-tories-tough-on-crime-agenda/article1337669/
tab21

"Harper and the Con's Once Again Stifle the Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page By Withhold Information for His Assessment of the Costs of the Conservative government's tough-on-crime agenda", will be the headlines in a week or two.

Harper and the Con's 'agenda' is no more than a hodgepodge of 'one-off's' that do not actually 'get tough' on anything but the tax-payers pocketbooks. In fact, Harper's changes are not much more than following George Bush's agenda, which has been manifestly demonstrated to be a complete disaster.

It is interesting that they refer to it as an 'agenda' and not a 'policy'. There is no coherent, unified policy here. These 'actions' are intended strictly to appeal to the extreme right elements in our society and upon which Harper and the Con's so strongly rely for support. Harper has no concern for how much it costs or the likelihood of it actually reducing crime. The worst part is that once again Harper is buying votes with the tax payers dollars.

As it turns out they have nothing to support their position to say that it is in the best interest of all Canadians. In fact, all the evidence points to the exact opposite. This is illustrated by the Report released by Graham Stewart, Prof Michael Jackson, et al, in last September.

The response by the Con’s, “The professor has a different philosophy than us,” Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan (to CBC).

In other words, the report is correct, Harper and the Cons are totally disregarding the facts and basing their position on shear Ideology, extreme right wing at that.

That is, they are not basing it on what is best for Canadians, but on irrational fear mongering and self-righteous hypocrisy, dragging us back to the Dark Ages with hints of the Inquisition. Is burning at the stake "cruel and unusual" for witches???

Lloyd MacIlquham cicblog.com/comments.html